[mythtv-users] xine and mythtv

Sim simon.hampton at freebel.net
Fri Jul 29 15:17:38 EDT 2005


On Friday 29 July 2005 20:22, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:57:40PM +0200, Sim wrote:
> > Perhaps what i have been asking for ages about jerky pictures is what is
> > being called dropped frames here.  I've been thinking it might be an
> > encoding issue and that I needed a hardware encoder even though I have a
> > celeron 2ghz.  But now I realise that I get dropped frames (a tiny pause
> > of much less than a second every 10 - 15 seconds).  I'm also seeing 50%
> > CPU usage.
>
> Are you using the same box for both recording and playback or is it a
> split system that plays over a LAN?  Does your audio pause at the same
> time?  I was having short pauses every 15 seconds or so, and it turned
> out to be a buffering problem.  I did some searching on Google and
> found out that the on-board network interface on my back-end machine is
> known to be complete crap, so I stuck in a $5 PCI network card and
> everything runs perfectly now.

No it is a combined front/backend, and the sound does jump at the same time.
(I did have problems playing music stored on another computer but various 
upgrades of software have sorted that out without difficulty.)

Simon


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